TC is a drama of "entente," concerned more with why people do things than what they do. Chaucer uses "entente" here much more heavily than in any of his earlier works and evokes its numerous meanings. As the poem progresses, there is a "slippage of…
The "Clementine Recognitions" and "Apollonius of Tyre" were probably known to Chaucer. He eschews their incest motif but reminds readers of it by his reference to Apollonius in the introduction of MLT.
Archibald, Elizabeth.
Teresa Tavormina and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 161-75.
Considers MLT "in the context of other Middle English family romances," a genre in which "members of a nuclear family are separated and then reunited after various adventures."
Explores incest motifs in a wide range of medieval texts, exploring origins and analogues. Discusses MLT as an example of the motif of the flight from the incestuous father and comments on incest in LGW (Philomena and Semiramis).
Archibald, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Barnes, ed. Incest and the Literary Imagination (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), pp. 17-38.
Although the Catholic Church in the twelfth century had developed "extraordinarily rigorous" prohibitions against intermarriage by persons related by blood, by the thirteenth century these standards had to be relaxed. Archibald discusses various…
Archibald, Elizabeth.
Journal of Medieval Latin 11 (2001): 27-49.
Archibald surveys accounts of Oedipus and of Semiramis in classical and medieval texts, focusing on their concern or lack of concern with incest. Recurrent mention of Dante, Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, and Chaucer-in particular TC, MLT, PF, and…
Archibald, Elizabeth.
Carolyn Muessig and Ad Putter, eds. Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages. Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture, no. 6 (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 222-36.
Archibald surveys Italian, French, and English literary instances of love compared to heaven, hell, paradise, or purgatory, commenting on Chaucer's uses in CT (WBT, KnT, and especially MerT) and LGW and exploring the more sustained use of this set of…
Archibald, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Archibald, and Ad Putter, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 139-53.
Archibald surveys subversions and satires of Arthurian literature, commenting that Chaucer "seems to be fairly hostile to the Arthurian world," even if implicitly so.
Archibald, Elizabeth.
Claire Vial, ed. 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note': Résonances dans les lais bretons moyen-anglais / Echoes in the Middle English Breton Lays (Etudes Epistémè, no. 25, 2014): n.p. (web publication).
Despite the widely accepted claim that French and Middle English Breton lays are concerned primarily with love, argues that the English poems pay relatively little attention to romantic love, and are more concerned with identity, family separation…
Arden, Heather M.
New York and London: Garland, 1993.
An annotated bibliography focusing on "The Roman de la Rose," divided into five broad categories: the text of the poem; other works by or attributed to Jean de Meun; modern critical studies; influence; and miscellaneous. Arden provides an overview…
Arduini, Roberto.
Roberto Arduini, Giampaolo Canzonieri, and Claudio A. Testi, eds. Tolkien and the Classics (Zurich: Walking Tree, 2019), pp. 105-20.
Surveys evidence for the influence of Chaucer on Tolkien and adds comments on his impact on Tolkien's ""scenes of common life in the inns and in the figures of the innkeeper and the miller."
Arens, Werner.
Uwe Boker, Manfred Markus, and Ranier Schowerling, eds. The Living Middle Ages: Studies in Mediaeval English Literature and Its Tradition (Stuttgart: Belser, 1989), pp. 167-81.
Examines a few specimens of "public poetry' (of the type Anne Middleton identified in FranT and MLT), poetry to serve "the common good," dating 1265-1462.
Arfin considers WBT as a "demande," written toward the end of the composition of CT as Chaucer's comment on "the collection as a whole" or on the "nature of literature in general" in his work-in-progress.
Arista, J. Martin, et al., eds.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
Collection of essays presented at the 22nd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature (SELIM), seeking new perspectives on medieval language study. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for…
Ariza-Barile, Raúl.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Contemplates the concept of "of a 'medieval Mexico' as a historically significant paradigm" in light of the nation's colonial past. Considers various translations of CT into Spanish and comments on Chaucer studies in Mexico, including the lack of…
Ariza-Barile, Raúl.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation. University of Texas at Austin, 2017.
Available at https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/63016
Accessed January 28, 2021.
Chapter 2 comprises discussion of how "astronomy travelled from Spain to England" and speculation about "how Chaucer might have benefitted [sic] from this collaboration in order to produce" Astr.
Armijo Canto, Carmen Elena.
Anuario de letras: Linguıstica y filologıa 46 (2008): 33-52.
Explores thematic parallels between Odo of Cheriton's "Sermones" and "Fabulae" and PardT. Though not intended to prove any direct influence of the former on the latter, shows how some topics that were widespread in ecclesiastical texts were adopted…
Armitage, Kenneth.
London: Jonathan Clark Fine Art, 2005.
Twenty-two b&w drawings (plus two cover illustrations) by Armitage accompany Urry's 1721 text of RvPT, with same-page modern poetic translation in by Nevill Coghill (1951). Each drawing has a title.
Armour-Hileman, Victoria Lee.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1989): 950A.
Three paradigms of the Celtic universe made their way, through either oral or literary tradition, into early English literature, as is shown in "Sir Orfeo," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," passages from four of the tales in CT, Spenser, and…
Armstrong, Dorsey, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2013.
Contains nineteen essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors, on literary and historical topics, Arthuriana, and women in the Middle Ages. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for "Magistra doctissima" under…
Armstrong, Dorsey.
San Francisco: Kanopy Streaming.
Includes commentary on "Piers Plowman"; Boccaccio's "Decameron"; and the impact of the plague on Chaucer's life, CT (especially PardT), and BD, claiming that Chaucer "could not have been Chaucer" if not for the plague.
Armstrong, Dorsey.
In Great Minds of the Medieval World (Chantilly, Va.: The Teaching Company, 2014), disc 10 of 12; lecture 19.
Audio recording of a lecture that aligns the achievements of Dante and Chaucer, focusing on their attention to individuals and uses of their vernacular languages. The discussion of CT emphasizes Chaucer's social variety as it contrasts traditional…
Armstrong, Elizabeth Psakis.
Centennial Review 34 (1990):433-48.
Both ClT and Marie de France's "Fresne" examine the themes of patience and obedience. Although the descriptions of Griselda and Fresne are strikingly similar, the style and perspective of the tales differ. In Chaucer's "lavish and masterful" style,…
Armstrong, Guyda.
Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2013.
Describes the translation and reception history of Boccaccio's work in English "from the fifteenth century to the twentieth," including discussion of the role of Chaucer and of Chaucer studies as impetus for nineteenth-century interest, popular and…
Arn, Mary-Jo, and Hanneke Wirtjes, eds.
Groningen: Wolters-Nordhoff, 1985.
Fifteen essays by various hands. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Historical and Editorial Studies in Medieval and Early Modern English under Alternative Title.
